Citizen Science: Manager’s Report
Acadia National Park
20 February 2023 - 26 February 2023

Introduction

Welcome to the weekly report of iNaturalist and eBird records. These are all observations submitted from 20 February 2023 to 26 February 2023 for the species that Acadia National Park managers have identified as being of particular interest.

These data for this report comes from open source citizen science projects: iNaturalist and eBird. The records here are both casual and research grade observations, so erroneous identifications are possible.

Pest Species

A Hemlock tree infested with Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
© Jesse Wheeler

There were no pest species reported this week.

Threatened & Endangered Species

Two Red Knots in flight
© Fyn Kynd
scientific.name common.name listing.status observed.on link
Histrionicus histrionicus harlequin duck state threatened 2023-02-20 <<<<<<< Updated upstream <<<<<<< Updated upstream view observation ======= view observation >>>>>>> Stashed changes
Histrionicus histrionicus harlequin duck state threatened 2023-02-25 <<<<<<< Updated upstream ======= >>>>>>> Stashed changes view observation
Histrionicus histrionicus harlequin duck state threatened 2023-02-25 <<<<<<< Updated upstream view observation
Alca torda razorbill state threatened NA view observation ======= view observation >>>>>>> Stashed changes ======= view observation >>>>>>> Stashed changes

Rare Species

A flowering Nodding Trillium
© Andy Fyon

There were no rare species reported this week.

<<<<<<< Updated upstream <<<<<<< Updated upstream ======= ======= >>>>>>> Stashed changes

New Park Species

A something
© Kyle Lima

There were no new species to the park reported this week.

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This project was made possible in part by a grant from the National Park Foundation.

Background art of Acadia National Park © Ben Tero.

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Data Citations:
iNaturalist. Available from https://www.inaturalist.org. Accessed [2023-02-27].

eBird. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance [web application]. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: http://www.ebird.org. (Accessed: Date [ 2023-02-27 ]).

GBIF.org (14 February 2023) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.pqwpft

GBIF.org (14 February 2023) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hhz84h

Michonneau F, Collins M, Chamberlain SA (2023). ridigbio: An interface to iDigBio’s search API that allows downloading specimen records. R package https://github.com/iDigBio/ridigbio

SCAN. 2023. http//:scan-bugs.org/portal/index.php. Accessed on February 14.